Technological breakthrough: Russia was the first to create iodine-based electric rocket engines

22 2018 June 16

Russia has made a big step forward in the development of space of technologies. Even Tsiolkovsky proposed using electricity to accelerate in jet engines. Such propulsion systems are called electro rocket systems. Their use can reduce the mass of the installation itself, increase the payload, shorten the flight duration and significantly increase the life of the spacecraft. Electric rocket engines are used on satellites and interplanetary spacecraft.

Xenon is used as fuel for electric rocket engines, but it is very expensive due to the small volumes of its production - not more than 10 tons per year. The Russian space corporation Energia is currently testing an electric rocket launcher that can operate on much cheaper reactive iodine instead of xenon. Thanks to the replacement of fuel, the dimensions and weight of the engine will significantly decrease. In addition, avoiding the use of xenon will radically solve the problem of fuel shortages and open the way to flights to the moon, Mars and other planets of the solar system.

The idea of using iodine as fuel was proposed by Russian engineer Valery Ostrovsky. RSC Energia in advance protected the system of storage and supply of reactive iodine from competitors with patents. Regular tests on Earth have shown the operation of the installation, now it remains to be checked first at the International Space Station, then at the Progress cargo vehicle. The experiment is planned for 2022 and was named after the name of the Russian inventor.

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Semyon Slow

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22 June 2018 22: 03

It is funny to see, as an illustration for the article, a photo of a self-made jet engine assembled in the garage by jet thrust enthusiast Igor Negody
1. Vkd dvk
  
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  24 June 2018 09: 12
  
  It’s good that such things evoke positive emotions in you.
  I'd love to get the same from demonstrating your capabilities.
2. Koshak
  
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  25 June 2018 08: 28
  
  And what, you can find and photograph the industrial design? Do not find fault with trifles. The article talks about the PRINCIPLE, not about a specific engine.
3. gorbunov.vladisl
  
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  26 June 2018 10: 15
  
  Can you also send drawings with explanations to the email? ))))
  What intelligence do you work for? ))))
4. sgrabik
  
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  18 November 2018 16: 13
  
  Maybe you can upload detailed photos, but at the same time also attach drawings with calculations to this, what kind of nonsense are you talking about ???
Monster_Fat

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23 June 2018 07: 42

This "breakthrough" lies on the headstock of the lathe .... as if in the garage ... and also amused by the "reactive iodine" ..... really "breakthrough" ...
1. Victor March 47
  
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  24 June 2018 00: 19
  
  In the maternity ward you, too, were lying in shit, ugly and screaming. And after many years, IT began to resemble a person.
2. sgrabik
  
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  18 November 2018 16: 23
  
  Calm down, your ravings are of no interest to anyone here, you can rave on.
Kuzmitsky

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23 June 2018 09: 24

Well done! Still cook pots at our people.
Monster_Fat

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23 June 2018 10: 18

A little "smoked" the topic on the Internet .... it turns out that all these electric rocket engines are low-power gizmos intended for short-term operation, small movements, such as orbit correction, and that's all. on such an engine, they were going to carry out interplanetary flights ...
1. vkfriendly
  
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  23 June 2018 15: 14
  
  Have you ever read the article ...? If yes, then re-read again, so as not to write nonsense.
2. Victor March 47
  
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  24 June 2018 00: 04
  
  https://aftershock.news/?q=node/465561
  The topic should not be smoked, but studied.
  Apparently, you also smoked a high school.
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4. Koshak
  
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  25 June 2018 08: 41
  
  Quote: Monster_Fat
  A little "smoked" the topic on the Internet .... it turns out that all these electric rocket engines are low-power gizmos intended for short-term operation, small movements, such as orbit correction, and that's all. on such an engine, they were going to carry out interplanetary flights ...
  
  The first liquid rocket, S.P. Korolev, rose to a height of only 80 meters. Compare, wise guy, with today's rockets.
5. sgrabik
  
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  18 November 2018 16: 35
  
  You have already been advised to calm down, do not litter the site with your ridiculous comments.
AlexanderVP

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27 June 2018 15: 05

Lies. ERD on iodine was tested in the USA in the last century. Amers even have a patent from 1999. In 2015, NASA tested and showed to the general public the IRE on iodine.
1. sgrabik
  
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  18 November 2018 16: 43
  
  With Amers, all this remained at the stage of experiments, their version did not even come close to the current prototype that our scientists and engineers were able to create.